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About Us


Dawn Hill Holding Company Limited ["D.H.H.C."] - is a private company, limited by shares, incorporated, on September 24th, 2024, in England under the Companies Act 2006 [Company No. 15975938]; registered office at: Dawn Hill, Waverley Drive, Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water, Surrey, GU25 4PZ, United Kingdom ["Dawn Hill"].

D.H.H.C. manages The Dawn Hill Estate and The Dawn Hill Art Collection, permanently exhibited at Dawn Hill.

The Dawn Hill Estate

Dawn Hill - is a magnificent Palladian mansion, located on one of the finest private plots within The Wentworth Estate.

Set within three and a half acres of mature landscaped gardens, this landmark property features a sweeping drive, vast classical proportions, colonnade entrance and an iconic exterior facade, hand carved from natural French limestone, in Paris.

Dawn Hill is a masterpiece, arranged over three expansive levels, comprising 26,150 sq. ft. 

The property has been meticulously crafted and engineered to combine the very best British craftsmanship and internationally sourced materials, with the innovative technology, in order to create an incomparable living experience in this quintessentially English setting.

The Wentworth Estate

The Wentworth Estate is a private estate of large houses, set in about 2.7 sq mi (7 km2) of woodland, in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey.

It lies on a gently undulating area of coniferous heathland, around 0.75 mi (1.21 km) south west of the centre of Virginia Water.

Construction of the estate, known locally as "The Island", began in the early 1920s.

Wentworth Golf Course is part of the estate and some properties can only be accessed through the course. 

Most of its invariably large plots have homes built from scratch or rebuilt after 1930 in a range of styles from the ornate multi-chimneyed Arts and Crafts movement of the earliest properties through to the Neo-Georgian and colonial revival and the postmodern simple style as in the recording studios at John Lennon's Tittenhurst Park (1971) in the adjoining parish of Sunninghill and Ascot, the north of which, with parts of Windsor, Winkfield and Virginia Water, is the main piece of Crown Estate in South-East England, Windsor Great Park.

The 19th-century house the "Wentworths" (now the club house for the Wentworth Club) was the home of a brother-in-law of the 1st Duke of Wellington.

It was purchased in 1850 by the exiled Carlist Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, and after his death, his wife bought up the surrounding lands which were later to form the nucleus of the Wentworth Estate.

In 1912, builder W.G. Tarrant had started developing St George's Hill, Weybridge – a development of houses based on minimal 1-acre (0.40 ha) plots based around a golf course.

In 1922, Tarrant acquired the development rights for the Wentworth Estate, getting Harry Colt to develop a golf course around the "Wentworth" house.

Tarrant developed the large houses on the estate to a similar Surrey formula used at St George's Hill – tall chimneys, dormer windows, gables, leaded lights, tile-hung or half-timbered or a combination of both; most using hand-made bricks and tiles.

Some houses had stonework round the front door and stone fireplaces, a few had a marble floor in the hall, and the rarest – of which he was most proud – had a stone tablet with his initials WGT.

Development of Wentworth Estate ground to a halt due to depression in the late 1920s, and, in 1931, when the banks asked for repayment of a large debenture, Tarrant was forced to declare bankruptcy.

The ownership of the land passed to Wentworth Estates Ltd, which came under the control of Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co. Ltd.

Construction picked up in the late 1930s, with many houses built by Tarrant Builders Ltd, with Tarrant's son Percy as one of the directors; but again stopped during World War II when the need arose to build high-density housing close to Virginia Water railway station.

With the outbreak of World War II, Wentworth Estate was selected as an alternative seat of government and a rural command post, offering fewer security problems and more resources than the London Cabinet War Rooms (see also Military citadels under London § Cabinet War Rooms).

A subterranean bunker and tunnel system, now sealed and covered by car parks, was built near the Clubhouse.

Designed by Harley Dalrymple-Hay, it was constructed in 1939 and consisted of two 25 feet (7.6 m) diameter parallel tunnels made from cast iron London Underground tube segments with a 12 feet (3.7 m) diameter service tunnel running between them.

The bunkers were occupied by the GHQ Home Forces, and later the 1st Signal Regiment.

The bunkers were vacated in December 1944. 

Post-war development picked up considerably, and, by 1960, most of the available land was already used. 

In 1962, a committee of residents and the company promoted a private act of Parliament, and on 31 July 1964, the Wentworth Estate Act 1964 (c. xl) was given royal assent.

The act established the Wentworth Estate Roads Committee, which appoints its members on advice from the Wentworth Residents' Association.

The Wentworth Estate is laid out across 700 hectares (1750 acres) and forms one of Europe's premier residential areas.

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